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Man sad scenes out of the train crash in India. Truly horrific looking at the scope of the disaster.

Private pool membership is such white American thing ain’t it? We got a rental lease this year because kid wanted to do summer swim and only way to do that was to get a club membership or rental. It’s been a week since this started and boy this is like 99% white folks out here lol. I feel so genuinely out of place already that I can’t wait for this swim season to be over. Hopefully once school actually ends will see better diversity of people.

People who have the time and don’t take an afternoon nap, why?! As I am ageing the afternoon nap (whenever I can) has become an important part of my day. I am much fresher in evening, my workouts are better and I don’t feel like a wreck by 10pm. On the other hand afternoon nap is 30 mins or less for me. Anything more also wrecks me up. But that sweet spot of 30 mins is pure bliss!

Hai allah our stock is finally moving along.

Our friends are also joining us now for our summer central Europe trip and as a result we have added one more destination in our already whirlwind trip. We are going to shuttling cities nonstop all-right!

Finally what I had feared would happen, happened. Went upstairs to take a shower while Hobbes was downstairs with dad; dad let him out on deck and completely forgot about him. I come back to dad merrily talking to bro in other room while Hobbes barking on the deck to be let in. *That was Hobbes barking?!* was my dad’s reaction when I told him he was waiting to be let in. This is why I always worry when we leave him with dad to run an errand and there’s no one else home. It was only a matter of time something like this happened, and knowing my dad if he was not in front of deck door, he probably will ignore him barking for an entire day assuming it is some other dog.

This has been the best spring in the last decade and half I’ve spent in the mid-atlantic region hands down. The temperatures have been absolutely perfect hovering between late 60s to late 70s in day time, with ample sunshine and little rain. When it rained, it rained on weekends for a day and has gone back to gorgeous days right after. Sure, purely speaking it *should* have rained way more than it did, but I dont care – knowing this region, we will make up for the rain sooner or later, so I am going to continue enjoying this absolutely amazing spring 2023.

It was only because of charimastic leadership of Sri Narendra Modi that Dev Shah was able to make Gujarat proud by winning the Spelling Bee in USA. I am pretty sure someone in my family is going to fwd a video on whatsapp about it soon.

Kinda disappointing to read Oppenheimer is rated R. We were planning on making it an essential viewing with kid in imax on release day – now we will have to wait till reviews are out to be sure if we want to take her. Language/violence/gore is not an issue but nudity/sex definitely is so need to wait and see why the movie was rated R.

I have been hooked to [Andante Espressivo](https://music.apple.com/us/album/andante-espressivo-string-orchestra-number-one-boy/1689640612?i=1689641301) from Succession in repeat loop. This would be such an amazing piece to hear it live in a orchestra won’t it? I wish the kid was taking music in 7th grade but thanks to electives system here she cannot take it in 7th grade ugh!